llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) (04/24/91)
i need to modify existing style files for bibliographic database. below is the text of a note i sent to my local guru. unfortunately, he hasn't used the database. can anybody help me? thanks. just need dome general ideas or explanations. ------------------- hi john, hope you can help me with style files for biblio. i'm using bibtex. actually i'm accessing it via a software called 'btt' which i pulled out from c.t.t. however, i need to modify the style file (*.bst) being used. i looked at /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/alpha.bst and had no idea what was going on. can you tell me what language on earth is it written in? a friend of mine said that it wasn't C. nor does it seem to be tex, at least i couldn't locate a description from the texbook. e.g. there are commands like FUNCTION and EXECUTE. also there are MACROS but they don't seem to be read or something from my *.bib file. i need to change some of the text formatting and styles. do you have some ideas how this might be done? thanks, lok
leland@cs.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU> llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes: > ...i need to modify the style file (*.bst) being used. >i looked at /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/alpha.bst and had no >idea what was going on. can you tell me what language on >earth is it written in? The bibtex(1) man page describes the postfix stack language used in the .bst files. Leland Woodbury -- INTERNET: leland@cs.columbia.edu USENET: ...!columbia!cs.columbia.edu!leland BITNET: leland%cs.columbia.edu@cuvmb USMAIL: Columbia Univ., 457 CS, 500 W. 120 St., NYC 10027-6699
jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.153925.25696@cs.columbia.edu>, leland@cs.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury) writes: |> In article <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU> llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes: |> > ...i need to modify the style file (*.bst) being used. |> >i looked at /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/alpha.bst and had no |> >idea what was going on. can you tell me what language on |> >earth is it written in? May I suggest checking labrea.stanford.edu:~/tex/bibtex/btxhak.tex. I successfully wrote a BibTeX style file (asaetr.bst) using this information and the standard examples. It's really not that bad once you get into it, but I admit it does look pretty cryptic ;-) -- James Darrell McCauley, Grad Res Asst, Spatial Analysis Lab Dept of Ag Engr, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet)